Tom Hewlett (right), senior scientist at Pasteuria Bioscience, and Bruce Martin, a plant pathologist, apply nematode-killing bacteria on ornamental plants. The company received $5.3 million in VC funding in the second quarter.

Fifteen Florida firms landed $127 million in venture capital in the second quarter, according to the latest Pricewaterhouse-Coopers/ National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. In the year-earlier period, VCs invested a little more than half of that amount in Florida companies, $69 million. For the first half of this year, Florida firms nabbed $276 million in VC funding, compared with $129 million in the first six months of 2006. The Florida companies that received funding in the second quarter: